Gutted by today's news. We are with *you*, MN.

(A close friend, offering me safe shelter for a long weekend, put it on thinking, "It's an animated film, it'll be easy to digest/non-triggering." Wrooooooong.)

It was beautiful... and *not* the right film for me to watch less than two weeks after directly witnessing/surviving climate catastrophe in my hometown of Altadena. I was crying each new time the kitty escaped yet another, cycling threat.

Throughlines = more ice cream, more parenthetical clauses, less gender binary (except at square dances). <-See what I did there?

[Part 2] "I would make it a rule that at square dances, boys would have to dance with girls (so that girls who are dancing with boys don't get embarrassed). I'd see to it that we didn't have to watch some of the dumb movies we watch on Friday. I'd also fire Mr. Green! That's what I'd do."

[Part 1] "If I were principal for a day, I would make sure that bus 21 didn't have to sit boy, girl. I would make sure that even though the last day of school is a Thursday, we would still get ice cream. [Continues...]

A recipe is a recipe is a recipe! And alchemy is magic.✨️Good teachings, sistah.✨️

As a non-follower of fauna of the Pliocene, I especially appreciate the descriptive text for this fella.